Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1887)
Forbes, S. Russell · London ; New York : T.Nelson · leaf 388
the work of Ancus Martins, who made theport of Ostia, and consequently the road to get there. At the topof the hill above we get the first view of the sea and the last ofS. Peters. We now pass through the woods and along an ancientcauseway through the salt marshes to the modern village of OSTIA,… … 346 RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGNA. village, an extensive view of the Latin coast and the surroundingancient forests may be had. Several rooms in the castle have beenturned into a museum of fragments found in the excavations. Thecastle was built by Julius II., 1503-13; and besides this there isnothing of…
